I was searching for a good picture of my big male dog
that just passed away in December at 15 1/2 years. The big dog is him.
The little dog is Maggie Mae who was a corgi-Jack russell mix. They loved me and I loved them and they both (about 10 years ago or more) in this photo likely taken between 2003 to 2005.
Furby was the smartest dog I ever knew and now I feel lost without him. Maggie died around 2005 after an encounter with a raccoon. She was a fighter (the jack russell side) and she had blood in her mouth but also where the raccoon bit her in the chest. She lived about one month after the tangle over garbage cans with the raccoon. Our baby sitter for my then 4 year old forgot to bring her and Furby inside and she got into it with a raccoon and died from kidney failure about a month later in an animal hospital. We had to put her to sleep. So, we petted her while they gave her a death cocktail.
We had allowed her and Furby to go outside and pee together one last time and then she was gone then in 2005. Our 4 year old never forgave us because she wasn't present when we put her to sleep.
Live and learn.
Yesterday I went to SPCA looking for a male dog to replace Furby. However, we found out our corgi wasn't open to the dogs we chose. So, we have to give up for now.
So, I think we likely will purchase a long hair german shepard puppy sometime soon. We just have to find the right one now. IF we get a male puppy Snowpearl can raise the puppy as her own. (She is a Welsh Pembroke Corgi:
This puppy image is what she looked like when we got her with papers so she could be shown 11 years ago about this time of year from the area of Vacaville, California.
My older daughter was about 15 and raised on a ranch in Williams, Oregon and always had her own horse. Once my older daughter when I visited they lived in Etna. (I visited my daughter as often as I was legally allowed (joint legal custody) so about 9 weeks a year or more visitation. So, my older daughter now age 26 is going to Portland State University and will graduate with a double major there.
So, right now my younger daugher who won a 32 thousand dollar merit scholarship and my older daughter are both getting their bachelor's degree. I miss one year ago in march where I was able to take my older daughter, younger daughter on a prep school break and my wife to Napili Kai on Maui where we had the best condo experience of the past 40 years of going there. We also took my older daughter's boyfriend and he took surfing lessons and got very good at surfing too.
I wish we could do that right now.
And maybe next fall we will.
My older daughter and I have been skiing together since she was 7. She is incredibly coordinated like me and an intuitive like me. She actually is my most powerful advisor in how to keep me alive right now outside of doctors and my wife.
In a few weeks my older daughter will care for me when I fly north and my wife goes to visit her grandson for the first time. I'm not able to fly that far yet after almost dying.
I wish I could fly to Hawaii to Maui right now. I believe I might heal up faster with about 10 days in a condo. I'll mention the idea to my wife today to see if that might be practical.
However, in thinking about it I couldn't physically survive a 5 hour flight right now so later.
Here are pictures of some long hair German shepard puppies and adults so you get what we are looking for. Furby my dog who died in December was 1/2 long hair german shepard and the most wonderful intelligent dog I ever knew. When we met him when he was 17 months old (he was long hair german shepard and bordie collie mix) he already knew 300 human words. Amazing Amazing Dog!
Everyone I knew begged me to give him to them they all loved him so. It's awful to lose a family member like this because Furby was like a God among dogs.
I called him my "Maha Kala" dog because he was a great spirit like a Dog living Buddha. Amazing dog!
Tibetan Lamas often have dogs with spirits like the amazing Furby. (By the way I didn't name him) he already had this name. LIkely he was the softest coated dog I ever petted. But also, he blew coat 24 hours a day all year long because of this too. So there was a lot of vacuuming up his blown coat around the house.
We didn't really mind having a completely magical dog with us who was more human like than animal like he was so very amazing in every way.
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